Welsh Journals

the west wall. This loam contains no pot, but quantities of bone and fragments of charcoal are found in it. Phase 3 of the wall is at a depth of 61 feet in the loam. The only substantial find from the site is a fragmentary millstone which was found incorporated in a path running parallel with the west wall. Unfortunately much of the Palace interior is covered with allotments, so it is impossible to put trenches down elsewhere to see if the clayey loam is continuous, and maintains its present consistent depth of approximately 2 feet below turf level. LESLIE ALCOCK III. THE DISCOVERY OF SEVEN HENRY I SILVER PENNIES, INCLUDING ONE OF THE CARDIFF MINT, DURING EXCAVATIONS IN THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN FOR the past two years members of the Cardiff Archaeo- logical Society have been conducting excavations on the site of an early 12th-century moated manor, near the village of Llantrithyd, Glamorgan. These excavations, under the direction of the writer, have revealed the footings of a drystone built ground floor domestic hall, and have produced many objects of iron, bronze, and bone, all in association with quantities of coarse unglazed pottery. By virtue of these finds this struc- ture can be dated to the first half of the 12th century, with pos- sible earlier affinities. It is, without doubt, the earliest known domestic medieval hall in South Wales, and a full report of the excavations will be published on completion of work on the site. It was in the process of uncovering this hall that the coins were found. Their discovery was spread over five months in the early part of 1962, from late February to late June, and were found, with one exception, widely scattered over an area of approximately 150 square feet outside the hall's north-west corner. The one exception, the first found (number 1 in the following list), came from under a thin layer of collapsed walling against the interior face of the same side, the west. All the